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    Most people know that Helen Keller was a blind, mute, and deaf women who faced many obstacles to learning. But what people don't know is that in 1956 by William Gibson a play was written called “The Miracle Worker”. There isn't only a play but also a movie released in 1962 directed by Arthur Penn also called “The Miracle Worker”. The movie and the play both showed people how Annie Sullivan was determined to teach Helen Keller everything she needed to know. They did have many struggles but that did

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    Helen Keller all of a sudden started learning words for everything around her. In a brief timeframe, her insight into dialect equalled and after that outperformed that of most observing and listening to people. After the illness, Helen turned into a troublesome youngster. She had fits, breaking lights and dishes. She threatened neighbors and going to individuals from her more distant family. Kate and Arthur were encouraged to send her to a foundation, yet they couldn't stand to send Helen to such

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    Helen Keller said, “Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.” (“Helen Keller Quotes”). As individuals it is known that everything in life happens for a reason, and those who can rise above challenges can accomplish anything they set out to do. When Helen Keller stated, “self-pity is our worst enemy,” she knew exactly what her destiny was in life and rose above her disability to make an impact on the world. On June 27, 1880, a perfectly healthy

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    Helen Keller was a deaf mute. It was 1880 when Helen Keller was born and she was special. She had trouble throughout her whole life, yet she never gave up. She is a game changer and she has a strong spirit to never give up. She can achieve anything that she puts her mind to. In this essay, I will tell you about her life and failures/challenges of Helen Keller’s life. How she became blind and deaf and how they got help: Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia Alabama. She was a

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    How Helen Keller positively changed the world “True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” (Helen Keller) Helen Keller gained a purpose at an early age in part to living with being both blind and deaf since one and a half years of age. This amazing woman proved anyone despite of the challenges they have can achieve outstanding things. Keller positively changed the world in many ways by using her disabilities to create awareness for others

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    Helen Keller was a huge success considering she was blind, deaf, and mute. Despite this struggle to unlock language when she was young, with the help of Annie Sullivan they could make the “miracle” happen. There was a play written by William Gibson in 1956, which was based off of this story, called “The Miracle Worker”. Later there was a movie directed by Arthur Penn and its was released in 1962, also about this story. They were both produced to show affection towards Annie Sullivan known as “The

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    "All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming" said Helen Keller, a woman who faced many obstacles in her life ("Fun"). Most people don't dedicate their lives to help others, especially if they have disabilities themselves, but Helen Keller is a different story. At 19 months old, Helen Keller was diagnosed with a disease that led her to be deaf and blind. A true hero is someone who is dedicated to help others in need no matter the circumstances/struggle he or she faces, never

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    Helen Keller was born in 1880, she became blind and deaf at the age of eighteen months. She could not know anything happening around her. She was a hopeless girl without any desire for the life she was living on. Not realizing anything around you is smoething that no one in this life want. When she became seven years old her family hired Anne Sullivan, a young extraordinary teacher who has made Helen’s life so much better than it was. Anne Sullivan started to teach Helen the words by a doll. She

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    Helen Keller had an inspiring and moving life. She learned manual sign language, how to speak, and educated many people on the struggles of being blind that still echo in society today. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her parents were Katherine Adams Keller and Arthur H. Keller, who proudly served in the Civil War. The family owned a cotton plantation, and in his later years Arthur wrote a weekly newspaper called the North Alabamian (biography.com, Internet). When

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    The Individual that interests me the most out of all the influential and successful people on the list provided is Helen Keller. Even after losing her sight and hearing at an early age, she never settled. She still aspired to learn, became an advocate for the deaf community and continuously broke barriers. (Topic sentence). As an infant Helen Keller contracted an illness that caused her to lose both her sight and hearing. This also disabled her at the time to learn how to speak audibly. She created

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